Tuesday, 26 January 2016

Today's prompt is to chose tangles of designers we admire. I like many people's work, but today I chose Sandy Steen Bartolomew, of whom I used a couple of my favorite patterns: Quip, Xyp, Abacus, Zander and Sporktime.

Thursday, 14 January 2016

Zengems are very populair at the moment, but I hadn't tried to make them yet. Somehow I didn't feel like it, because I'm quite attached to creating 'black on white' tiles.

But... today's Zenuari prompt is to try and make zengems. There's an instruction for making them on black, which I like, so I gave it a go. I wanted to do it a little different, so I draw a variation of Auraknot and filled it up with gems. Thank you, Anoeska, for letting me discover these gems :-)

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Choose a subject and create a serie of Bijou tiles: that's today's prompt. My 'subject' is tangling patterns made by Helen Williams. The tangles I chose are 2/8's, Sails and Zag-V. A nice way to explore these patterns :-)

Friday, 8 January 2016

We're to roll the dice six times and each number is linked to the name of a tangle in a special list Anoeska made. This means I want to use a string pattern that consists of at least six parts - and then I start to puzzle with the 'chosen' patterns.

I chose string #110 and had to fill it with Wud, Arukas, Quib, Jetties, Jalousie and Hurry. Patterns I would not have chosen myself to use together in 1 tile. Especially Quib doesn't really fit in, but hey: that's life :-)

Participating in Zenuari (daily!) means there's not much time left to create other tiles. Today, I have a more time to relax, so I started with Joey's challenge.

She has composed a new theme to think about the next couple of weeks: music inspired artwork.

To answer this week's question: whether I prefer to play music while tangling or not, really depends on my state of mind. I do both, but this tile was created while music played. I don't think it influenced the result though ;-)

Monday, 4 January 2016

Participating in Anoeska's Zenuari means that I am tangling every day. This is fun (!) but I also like to participate in some challenges, like the one from Laura, 'the Diva'. So: I tried to combine the prompt of Anoeska (use a tangle as a frame) with Laura's challenge (make a duotangle with Diva Dance and Auraknot).

Since we're celebrating The Diva challenge's 5th Birthday (hurray, congratulations Laura, and many thanks!) I decided to draw Diva Dance stage curtains (as a frame) and put (L)auraknot as a shining star on stage :-)